After the "......" air raid sirens sounded, endless fire alarms began to echo over the city of London. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Bombs dropped by German bombers destroyed countless London homes and left many Londoners homeless.

Although the British Air Force has been trying to intercept these unscrupulous German bombers these days, their efforts have not paid off.

Dowding lost a full 200 fighters of various types in the space of a few days, but in the end he had to withdraw from London airspace in a gloomy way.

His fighter unit suffered heavy losses, but could not be replenished accordingly, and had almost lost its most basic combat effectiveness.

After all, he wanted to keep at least 200 fighters to fight for air supremacy over the battlefield in the event of a possible German landing invasion.

On 15 August, the British Air Force finally made its last brave attempt after two days of respite.

On that day, the British took off 170 fighters mobilized from various regions to intercept the largest German bomber group in history.

The two sides fought in the skies, and eventually the British Air Force forced the Germans to cancel the bombing of London.

This victory did not inspire Dowding and the Air Force fighter units in his hands, but on the contrary cost them their last blood.

With the loss of 53 fighters, they shot down 72 German fighters and bombers, achieving the largest victory in history.

However, this victory caused the British Air Force to cancel the future interception operation plan, and they had to give up the air supremacy battle over London.

Dowding only had 300 planes left in his hands that could take off and fight, and Germany still had almost 3,000 combat planes of various kinds bombing indiscriminately against the British mainland.

At the time of the Battle of Britain, the British Air Force had 740 aircraft, while the Luftwaffe had about 3,000 aircraft of various types.

Now, after half a month of attrition, the number of British fighters has dropped to 300 aircraft, while the German aircraft forces have almost maintained the strength of the war.

On the one hand, in order to maintain the suppressive force, the Luftwaffe mobilized more than 200 aircraft from various regions to support, and on the other hand, the production of fighter aircraft maintained a high output.

Britain, on the other hand, has been declining fighter production since the Battle of Britain, and at this stage, almost two-thirds of the production has been stopped.

This situation caused the British to severely reduce the number of fighter units, and eventually lost the ability to compete with German fighters.

On 16 August, the Luftwaffe again visited London en masse, this time on an even larger scale, apparently in retaliation for yesterday's desperate attempt by the British Air Force.

A full 700 sorties of bombers appeared over London, England, dropping 2,100 tons of bombs, turning the whole of London into a sea of fire.

Unlike the usual bombing, which only attacked the factories in London, this one covered the entire city of London, so the area of destruction this time was desperately large.

"Parking! Stop the car! "Standing in front of their own burning house, helpless civilians shouted loudly at the roaring fire truck.

They still have a lot of valuable things in their room that need to be salvaged before they are destroyed by fire.

But the fire trucks that were speeding through the streets were clearly not here to rescue them civilians.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! The order we received was not to rescue here! Standing on the fire truck, a firefighter shouted loudly to the citizens on both sides of the car.

"Please! Please! Third floor! My kids are on the third floor! "A woman threw herself on the body of a fire truck despite her man's tug, and was stumbled by the fire truck that was still moving, even though it had slowed down.

Ignoring the dirt on her body, she got up and continued to pull the moving firetruck, as if hoping to stop it.

Looking at the buildings on the side of the street that have completely collapsed, there is still billowing smoke on them, where is there any third floor?

The firefighter looked at the man holding the woman and asked, "What child?" Someone inside the ruins? ”

"Our child died a few days ago...... My wife was hit so hard that she was delirious...... She didn't mean to stop you. The man explained sadly as he pulled his wife back.

His words made the woman cry while people on both sides of the street watched what was happening here, and some picked up items that had fallen from the street.

In each street, there is a person in charge of air defense and corresponding team members, and these people are civilians living in the street.

After the bombing, they had to sort out the garbage on the streets, get traffic back to work as quickly as possible, and help salvage some property and supplies.

The fire truck had to go to another place to put out the fire, and the disaster here was obviously not serious enough, so in the end, people were not able to stop the fire truck and let it rush to the place where it was needed more.

Sirens blazed along the way, and soon a military vehicle followed, with soldiers with weapons in the car, who had to maintain law and order at the disaster relief site and also help in fighting the fire.

When they finally stopped the car where they needed to put out the fire, everyone was stunned by what they saw.

Big Ben, the symbol of London, which has been standing there since 1859, has cracked due to bombing, and the building next to it is still on fire.

"Quick! The fire must be extinguished! Jumping out of the fire truck, the commander of the firefighters reminded his men loudly.

They were ordered to extinguish the fire, but they didn't expect to see Big Ben crumbling under the bombardment.

"My God! Have you abandoned us......" he said as he looked at the bell tower of Big Ben, which was still in the firelight.

"Two aerial bombs exploded near Big Ben, but fortunately the building was relatively strong, so it did not collapse......," a second lieutenant with a weapon on his back walked over and explained the situation to the firefighters who arrived at the scene.

The Germans dropped bombs, which exploded into the surrounding buildings, and two more incendiary bombs destroyed the building next to Big Ben, turning it into a sea of fire.

"These damn Germans! They actually bombed civilians! The firefighters complained as they laid the water pipes for firefighting.

Several soldiers in military uniforms also laid down their weapons and helped drag the water hose to a better position.

At the moment when they picked up the water pipe, as if they had pressed an initiating switch, there was a sudden violent vibration under Big Ben.

Then they saw a huge explosion rise into the air, apparently a time-lapse bomb exploding.

The bomb became the last bit of force to destroy Big Ben, and in the midst of this huge explosion, Big Ben, which had stood in Britain for 80 years, collapsed with a bang.

The stone walls fell vertically to the ground with crumbling dust, spreading the dust below in all directions.

Amid the screams of people in the distance, the main body of Big Ben, the superstructure with its huge dial, fell to the ground in its entirety, making a loud explosion with the same loud sound as an explosion.

For a moment, dust and rubble flew everywhere, and debris even splashed over the heads of these firefighters, making a crackling sound on the steel helmets.

Before they could realize what was happening, a huge wave of air rushed in their faces, knocking them all to the ground, and then their bodies were covered by the tumbling dust.

Big Ben, London's iconic building, is in rubble and ruins, leaving only the giant clock hands stuck in the ruins, like tombstones.

"Big Ben has fallen!" A civilian shouted at Big Ben in the distance, while many around him looked up at the smoke rising from there.

Buildings collapse here every day, there are their own houses, there are friends' houses, and as for a bell tower that has nothing to do with itself, the collapse can only be exchanged for a sigh.

Standing in front of the microphone of the speech, King George VI of England had to once again give an inspiring speech to the people.

He had a bad stutter and couldn't speak, but he had to stand up and say something.

Just now, Big Ben collapsed in the flames of war, and London, England, is still burning, and his country is suffering, and he must face it together.

"I ...... I'm valiant...... of the people! Please...... Believe...... Our country will win! We...... We will ...... Defeat the enemy! Any difficulty...... Neither, can't knock us down! He spoke with difficulty, and uttered incoherent speeches.

Compared with the last speech, this time he was left with less time to practice, so he also spoke more hard.

While the sound of his speech echoed through the horn over the city of London, some of London's buildings were still collapsing and crumbling.

A sense of defeat pervaded the whole city, and they saw their fighters shot down, and saw enemy bombs fall on their homeland.

They didn't even know why they were fighting—the war had been fought to the point where it would bring Britain even if it was victorious.

"God! Be with us! In the end, George VI finished his speech with the most fluent closing sentence.

However, just as his speech ended, the terrible air defense sirens sounded, and another wave of German bomber air raids arrived.

In the sky, one by one, the JU-88 bombers, under the cover of the hordes of escort fighters, opened their magazines.

With the sound of the howling wind, the bombs in the magazine began to fall one after another, dragging a long whistle into the buildings and ground of London.